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Frederick William I, the king of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatset gift to

the Russian people would have __1____ an amazing history. This gift was the Amber

Room,___2___ was given this name because several tons of amber were used _____3____(make)

it. The amber which was selected ____4__(have) a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey.

The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure

_____5_____(decorate) with gold and jewels, which took the country's best artists about ten

years to make.

In fact,the room was not made _____6_____(be) a gift. It was designed for the palace of

Frederick I. However,the next king of Prussia, Frederick William I,____7__ whom the amber

room belonged, decided not to keep ___8___. In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. ___9___

return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became part of the

Czar's winter palace in Stpeterburg. About four metres long,the room served ___10___ a small

reception hall for important visitors.

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Later,Catherine Ⅱ had the Amber Room ____1____(move) to a palace outside St Ptersburg

where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details __2____ it. In 1770 the

room was completed the way ___3___ she wanted. Almost six hundred of its mirrors and

pictures shone like gold ._____4___(sad), although the Amber Room was considered one of the

wonders of the world, it is now _____5_____(miss).

In St Pterburg 1941,the Nazi army was near St Peterburg. This was a time ____6___ the

two countries were at war.___7____ the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians

were able to remove some furniture and small art objects from the Amber Room. However,some

of the Nazis secretly stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside

twenty-seven wooden boxes.___8___ is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for

Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic sea. After that, ___9____

happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.

Recently,the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer palace. By

studying old photos of the former Amber Room, they have made the new one look like the old

___10__. In 2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they celebrated the 300th

birthday of their city. .

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Atlanta was a Greek princess. She was very beautiful and could run faster than ___1___ man

in Greece. But she was not allowed to run and win glory for herself in the Olympic Games. She

was ___2___ angry that she said to her father that she would not marry anyone ___3___ could

not run faster than her. Her father said that she must marry, so Atlanta made abargain with him.

She said to him, "These are my rules. When a man says he wants to marry me, I will run against

him. If he cannot run as fast as me,he ____4______(kill). No one will be pardoned."

Many kings and princes wanted to marry Atlanta, but when ___5____ heard of her rules,

they knew it was___6_____(hope). So many ofthem sadly went home, but ___7____ stayed to

run the race. Therewas a man ____8___(call) Hippomenes who was amazed when he heard

ofAtlanta's rules, "Why are these men so 9______(fool)?" he thought. "Whywill they let

themselves be killed because they cannot run as fastas this princess?" However, when he saw

Atlanta come out of her house to run, Hippomenes changed 10______ mind. "I will marry

Atlanta - or die!" he said.

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Over time I have been changed quite a lot. I began ___1___ a calculating machine in

France in 1642. ___2____ I was young I could simplify difficult sums. I developed very slowly

and it took nearly two hundred years ___3____ I was built as an analytical machine by Charles

Babbage. After I was programmed by an operator___4___ used cards with holes, I could "think"

logically and produce an answer quicker than any person. At that time it was considered a

technological revolution and the start of my "artificial intelligence". In 1936 my real father, Alan

Turing, wrote a book about ____5___ I could be made to work as a "universal machine" to solve

any difficult mathematical problem. From then on, I grew rapidly both ___6___ size and in

brainpower. By ___7___ 1940s I had grown as large as a room, and I wondered ____8___ I

would grow any larger. However, this reality also worried my designers. ___9____ time went by,

I was made ___10_____(small). First as a PC (personal computer) and then as a laptop, I have